Is Amazon's Minimum Wage Increase a Step Forward or Just a Savvy PR Move?

by Katie HerzogBezos does not lack for balls.Charles MudedeAmazon's announcement this week that the company will be increasing its minimum wage to $15 a hour—and lobbying Congress to change the federal minimum wage to the same—was largely met with cheers. While $15 a hour might not be enough to survive in a city like Seattle, for hundreds of thousands of low-paid Amazon workers (many of whom, in this state, depend on Medicaid), this seemed like a positive step forward, and soon after